I've been wanting to go China and teach for 6 months, but life got in the way. I'm pretty stationed where I am right now. It isn't bad because I'm eating but I hoped for some kinda adventure, not just a 2 week vacation off somewhere. People tell me I'm not too old to still do it, but it's more complicated then that, I have house that's worth less than I paid for it, the economy sucks so I'm afraid of losing my job and my girlfriend's not into long distance relationships. However, I made a promise to myself, I'll talk to my work to see if I can get an extended 6 months vacation next May. I can rent out my house to students and I'll have to work something out with my gf. If I don't go then, I probably never will.
I regret not going to toys r us to get a zhuzhu last Sunday, those dang zhu zhu pets are so elusive. Sometimes I regret being so mean, rude, bossy & ungrateful, but then sometimes i'm SOOOOOOOO nice so I guess it balances out
I regret not returning that call on my pager. Could have been the last time I talked to my cousin to make things right.
The year was 2001. My cousin paged me, I never answered. He hung himself a few hours later. Therefore, I post in a regret thread.
I regret riding dirtbikes since the age 4. I've fractured so many bones that I could develop arthritis by the age 42.
Yeah it was bad. He lived with me for years, matter of fact, his brother that has down syndrome, still lives with my mom. He was arrested that night, kinda flipped out. The cops "say" he hung himself in his cell with a strip of sheet from his blanket. The autopsy although showed he had a broken nose, a contussion on his head, two black eyes, and broken ribs. Kinda weird. My w**** bag of a Aunt (that never had custody of her kids a day in her life) started a lawsuit. Not sure if he hung himself or was murdered by the cops. He is the type to fight the Police, no doubt. Harris County Police. You decide. I just know I have a empty spot for losing my best friend.
Damn bro, my condolences. As said before, you had no idea that was going to happen. Try not not to get too down on yourself.
I will say that a newly arrested individual having a bedsheet is an impossibility at County. It takes at least 24 hours, (and more like 48) plus there aren't any individual cells with beds in them.
Exactly. When I seen him in the casket, with all the make-up on. I knew, right then and there. He should have been in a holding tank about that time, most likely with other inmates, esp in Harris Co.
Yeah, its a regret not returning the call. I dont really but much of the blame on me. I feel like I righted my wrong, this past year. I waited for his mother to get him a headstone for his grave for about 7 years. She never did. My mom and I went down to Brookside, and bought it ourselves. Those things arent cheap either. I think it was almost $3k. Now, he has something nice. I go to visit him often still. Sometimes I just pull up in my truck, get out, and chill out there for an hour. Eases the pain, and rekindles the memories.
I regret not working hard in HS, letting myself basically just ride out my mental abilities, which doesn't work in College. I regret treating the girls like an ashole when I was younger, definitely didn't help out my rep. I regret not making it to college in the USA - which was my biggest dream - after multiple SAT's, TOEFL's, application's,... because of financial issues. I'm only 19, so no big regrets yet.
EDIT: Can't edit, but after reading RedRowdies story, I regret actually getting down on myself for things as stupid as I posted.
Actually I just found a link. If you look at 8/26/00 its him, Scott Allen Mitchell. Man, I thought it was in 2001. Geez, im getting old. Here is what it says: 8/26/00 - Scott Allen Mitchell w/m, 25, found hanged in the Clear Lake jail of the Harris County Sheriff's Dept. Mitchell had been charged with a family violence misdemeanor offense. Police claim suicide. Man, he was just 25 too. http://www.civiliansdown.com/in-custody deaths & injuries.htm
